Bob The Badger

15 hours ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

From the archive footage I've seen, nfl pitches in the 70s were like the baseball ground and the game was similarly slower 

You're right.

Now you have linebackers who are built like Olinemen from the 60s' and 70s' who run like WRs did (almost).

The power and speed is incredible but nobody can built up the strength of an ACL or Achilles in comparison.

48 minutes ago, jimbo jones said:

Assume you meant 5’6? ?

he’s actually 5’10, midget QB’s are the future, almost impossible to tackle without getting called for roughing the passer.

Roughing the passer is (kinda) great for pocket passers who are small, but how does it help passers who like to run?

You cannot get called for roughing the passer when the passer is outside the tackle box and has turned into a running back like Murray and Jackson do.

Unnecessary roughness maybe if he has started to slide and you hit him.

Plus, and as importantly, you cannot get called for RTP if you hit him legally before he lets the ball go.

Did you see how hard Jalen Ramsay hit Goff the other day on a legal hit?

Or how hard Donald hit Russell Wilson (who seems small but is taller, stronger and heavier than Murray) and but him out for several weeks.

Murray would have exploded like a glass doll.

Big runners like Vick and RGIII couldn't add any longevity and it's catching up with Mahomes.

And they are/were all much bigger and stronger than Murray.

He's playing lights out but it only needs one hit (and that hit doesn't even have to be legal) and he's utterly toast.

I won't argue that he could most definitely win a Super Bowl if he avoids a big hit and there will be similar QBs taken, but he's no more the future than Doug Flutie was when he entered the league.

He's a very gifted QB (and scary for me as a Rams fan this season), but if he lasts I'll be stunned and there's literally nothing to suggest his ilk are the future of the NFL.

In fact, just the opposite is true because the NFL is littered with running QBs who were going to change the game and never quite did.

I haven't watched A Question of Sport in probably two decades and watched two back-to-back yesterday whilst tending a sick pup.

I'm not sure why I watched the second one other than I couldn't believe how embarrassing it was and presumed it was a fluke.

I probably just loved it for the nostalgia and maybe it was never that good, but at least it had actually sporting stars on and not celebs and wannabes. 

I loathe TS with a passion.

A few months after moving back to the UK ai almost posted a thread about it asking why on earthe would anybody listen to it.

It *seems* that 70% of the time I hit the button to listen to it when I lose interest in 5Live it's adverts. Maybe I'm unlucky or maybe I just *think* it's that because it's a lot, but I haven't listened in 6 or 7 months now.

Even when it wasn't adverts it was utter baalocks.

Other than that, yeh I'm with ya.

Two episodes in of The Undoing and it's pretty good in a seen it all before kinda way.

Nicole Kidman is getting dangerously close to that tipping point with plastic surgery.

Much more and she'll slide into trout territory. 

22 minutes ago, Steve Buckley’s Dog said:

Prevented chants of ‘Cox out’ as well which would have been both heartbreaking and funny at the same time.

Cox’s team will always be my Derby County, travelling all over the country watching his bunch of warriors. What a great time that was. Phil Gee through Burridge’s legs, George Williams scrapping on the goal line at Stoke, Bobby…always Bobby.

They were the days when new signings actually improved the team. Chandler to Callaghan, McClaren to Gregory, Davison to Saunders, Hindmarch to Wright, Wallington to Shilton… you could go on. 

I agree. Let’s have more Cox. Something this forum manages to do on a daily basis so why not @Owen87ITK. A 5 part series is definitely called for. Didn’t Radio Derby do a big feature with him a couple for years ago? Sure they did. Remember his Wallington playing at Ipswich with a broken finger/hand story. 

Great days.

Quality SBD.

And yeh, come on @Owen87ITK get him on.

2 hours ago, Ellafella said:

I can confirm that; I've had the pleasure of speaking with him at The Old Vicarage too. He is a really great old-school gentleman who refused politely to tell me anything "juicy" about eg Maxwell although he did tell me some very funny anecdotes involving helicopters with Maxwell's leg hanging out. Arthur really is a diamond gentleman. It's time Rams TV caught up with him. Can anybody @Owen87ITK make that happen. I think Arthur generally ticks the "No publicity" box but surely we need to pour some love on him for what he did?

I am so pleased to hear that, so thanks to you and @rebb1 and yes, we should all let Rams TV know how much we'd love that.

To those of you worried about his 'bad back', it may be time to just it go and give a massive hand-clap to a Derby great.

And i use the word 'great' advisably. 

He is a legend.

3 minutes ago, richinspain said:

With our form in front of goal last season, Jason Knight came pretty close to achieving it with his goal against Preston.

Every player who scores first every season is 'close' or at least, has a chance.

You have to be in it to win it.

6 minutes ago, NottsRam said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGp-sWElBhA

One of many great days under Arthur's leadership

I *think* that John Gregory was the only player since to war to score the first and last goal of a Derby season that year.

At least not that I'm aware of.

Sorry if that headline seems insensitive, but it may look like clickbait if I just post his name when he's ok.

I'm just interested if anybody has info on Arthur - or even, journalistic speculation Colin?

It all went south at the end, but that man is up there with Clough, Mackay and TBE as the greatest Rams managers in my lifetime.

I had some of my happiest Derby memories (and I watched all the home European games) watching that team rebuild in the 3rd division.

Maybe it was the fact that, as now, we had sunk so low and Arthur dragged up back up again because Clough's team was harder to break down, Mackay's more likely to put 4 past you, and Jim's more likely to attack you with pace on the counter, but I just loved that team.

For those of you old enough to remember Kevin Wilsons explosive start to that season, how shocking was it that Coxy promptly sold him?

Stunning and dumb eh?

Dumb like a fox when he used the money to bring in Micklewhite and, was it Gregory? Callaghan maybe? I dunno, come on stat fans, enlighten me who he used that money on!

I was listening to an interview with Robert Lee the other day and he was complaining at how poor Newcastle were at honouring old heroes. Derby are quite good in fairness and maybe AC wants his privacy, but duck me, I'd love to see the man introduced to the PP crowd. I'd even drive up from Cornwall to see it.

I just hope he's well as I know he had major back issues even when he was manager.

1 hour ago, Leeds Ram said:

The Supreme Court was created to try and separate out the judiciary from the legislature by giving them a building of their own and stripping the lord chancellor of some of their capacities such as the ability to sit as a judge. Critically, the supreme court in this country doesn't function as the court in the US due to our uncodified constitution that's a result of the premise that Parliament is ultimately sovereign i.e., no one Parliament can bind a future Parliament. The court cannot for instance overturn primary legislation which makes it far less important as a law body than the US Supreme court. That's what I remember from my UK politics uni classes and A levels at least. 

Thanks. I must confess to being a shockingly ignorant of the UK system consider I'm from here.

I know I would get irritated by Americans claiming or presuming that we didn't have a constitution just because it wasn't written down.

But me getting irritated by Americans is nothing to write home about.

As I said in my last letter.

15 hours ago, jono said:

? I do get very serious about certain  things. It’s the way I am made. Things like this get my goat and I turn full on grumpy old goat. ? 

In the end the EFL is a democratic body elected by its members and supposed to represent its electorate in a just manner.

The best recognised democratic process always has 3 key elements 

Legislature

Executive

Judiciary 

The legislature is the EFL: it’s electorate .. it’s members……  It makes the laws on their behalf.

The executive enforces the laws .. it’s the police … or officers appointed by the executive with suitable terms of reference.

The judiciary  becomes involved when laws(rules) are breached

I don't necessarily disagree with what you say, but it's not factually accurate, at least not in the US  or UK. 

The legislature do make the laws.

In the US this Congress and made up of the House of Representatives (usually just called the House) and then Senate with the Senate really being where the power lies with setting laws. The Senate can and does, frequently knock back legislation. They're like the elected version of the House of Lords, but usually more awake, and far likely to strike down laws. If necessary without even presenting them on the Floor when the Party submitting the bill doesn't have a majority.

The Executive implements those laws, they don't enforce them in either country. The Police are not part of the democratic process. Nor are local councils, the Military, or dozens of other roles that give people power.

In the US example, this is The White House.

In the UK it's surprisingly, The Queen, meaning we really don't have a 3-tiered system in anything but name only like the US because she's just a girl who always says yes.

The judiciary do not become involved when laws are breached. Well they do at a lower level, clearly, but the Judiciary as it is referred to in the democratic sense means the Justices i.e. in the US example, The Supremer Court, and they are there to review and where deemed necessary, amend laws.

We do have a Supreme Court in this country but I'm honestly not sure how they are seen constitutionally, or whether they it on top of the tress so to speak, like they do in the US.

If anybody sles knows that (or can be arsed to Google it) I'd be intrigued to know. 

Other than that....

On 13/10/2021 at 09:00, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said:

Said it before many times, and I'll say it again. The DET has absolutely no journalistic merit at all. None. They only care about dedicating the maximum amount of screen space to adverts as possible and churning out the highest volume of 'articles' possible. Most of it is copied/pasted from twitter and/or taken from work other outlets have done. 

Absolute rubbish.

Same as literally every other local paper in the country. They literally have no choice but to do that other than go bust.

It sucks, but you have to pay for free and you pay with ads and clickbait. 

9 hours ago, 86 Hair Islands said:

Ah, but back then it was 'politicising the pandemic' and anyone guilty of this heinous crime was quite rightly derided ?

It's a genuine tragedy that it's taken 100 thousand deaths for us all to arrive at at something vaguely akin to a consensus, but in broader terms, nothing has really changed. Climate change is the next hill on which we'll die and in our millions too, because we've learned nothing from this pandemic, nothing at all.

We are already dying in our millions because of climate change.

Just not here.

Yet.

4 hours ago, Eddie said:

Couldn't find one. Would PhotoUrAnus do?

That does look a lot like my ring piece but the middle bit needs to be redder and more angry looking,

4 hours ago, BucksRam said:

Daughter gets headache and sore throat Sunday.  Do home test, negative.  "Are you sure Dad?" - "Yes I reply, all your symptoms are also the same as for a cold and there's a lot going around so don't worry and assume it's COVID".  As of this morning, still suffering, so do another test - positive. Damn.  Turns out 4 others in her class have also tested positive today. Joy of joys. 

The wife had to leave her ward to walk over and get her flub jab today. She said there were 20 ambulances in line to drop patients off with Covid and paramedics were having to deal with some.

I'm not sure how she knew and she's not home yet to ask, but she's no BSer, she leaves that to me.

This hasn't gone away.

5 hours ago, Wolfie said:

Let the Hindsight peeing contest begin.....

Yep, it really bugs me when people say how right they were.

Like that Bob the Badger. He kept saying the Government screwed everything up in the lead up to the vaccine being ready, but accepted they did a good job rolling out the immunisation programme.

But you never hear him gloat.

I admire that.

44 minutes ago, GboroRam said:

It's not waterproof you need up there. Impervious to digested food maybe.

I'm old, I haven't eaten solid food since Thatcher was in number 10.

2 hours ago, Archied said:

I’d be more concerned about the lost tripod 

I thought it was my missing hamster. No wonder it's not moving around and I can't find the tripod. 

10 hours ago, i-Ram said:

Polaroids?

Grow up.

iPhone with the PhotoUrRectum app installed.

Apple moving on to waterproof phones has been a godsend I tell ya.

I always suspected.

The far right are going to implode.

7 hours ago, Tamworthram said:

What really annoys me is the people that think they need to out do everyone else and buy commercial sized fireworks that are totally inappropriate for domestic gardens. If fireworks have to be sold to the general public then there should be a limit on their size.

Not sure what you mean tbh.

I did buy some last year and took this picture, but I wasn't trying to impress anybody.

The second nights were better anyway.